Sabu Francis is well known for his research work in Architecture; especially representation of architecture using computers. He is also known for his expertise in software related to architecture, AI and Knowledge Management. Sabu has given several talks at IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, Pillai's college of Architecture - Navi Mumbai, IES College - Mumbai, Academy of Architecture - Mumbai, etc. The main lecture at Stapathya 2000 (an event at the Leela, Mumbai that celebrated the use of IT in architecture) was given by Sabu Francis. Similarly he has conducted many such lectures/seminars/workshops mainly in Mumbai and one in Bangalore and one in Kerala. None of those are listed in detail here, and the visitor is requested to follow other sources for more information.
Here are some of the papers/articles written by Sabu Francis and published in mainly peer reviewed journals/conferences. This also lists some links to articles about Mr. Sabu Francis, his work and talks given by him
- Paper on TAD submitted at the IT-Built conference at IIT Kharagpur, 2001.
- The Le Corbusier Guide: An experience published in the Indian Concrete Journal, one of the oldest and respected peer-reviewed journal in India.
- Campus diary, IIT Bombay, September 2000
- Reference to Sabu's work at Times of India, India's leading and oldest newspaper.
- Citation at CuminCAD, an online index of papers relating to Computer Aided Design in architecture. This citation is for Sabu's paper The Importance of being abstract: An Indian approach to models, which was published in the peer-reviewed conference of eCAADe in September 1999. This paper is also available here The PDF version of this document, directly from the book is also here.
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Here is a link to Sabu's work being discussed by some energy specialists
- Sabu's tutorials for Visual Prolog are available from their website
- Here is the competition entry for a conceptual design for Freedom Park; a large public space at Bangalore, India. It is a large PDF file, to be printed on A1 size paper. It may be difficult to read it off the screen.
- Here is a power-point presentation: An Introduction to Logic and Prolog
More articles are available from the website of TAD, the main software developed by Sabu Francis.
He is available for talks/seminars/workshops. If you want to invite him for any such event, please send a request email.
This site also hosts Sabu's Blog where you can read his poetry, download music, etc.
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